[AU] Urth Adventures

[Furnifold]

— Begin quote from ____

Out of the dozen or so remains of the electricized grunts, only one of them rose from the punishment delivered to him. Seemingly being unfazed by the lightning he received just minutes ago, he ‘twitched’ his head to remember the forgotten sensation, but sighed in disappointment as he made a verbal reminder to himself,

“It’s a shame I can’t be punished like that anymore for my failures, but then again, I suppose it isn’t that shocking anymore!”

With a childish laughter, the man disappeared from his area and reappeared into the next area where he could stealthily blend in among the severely outmatched ‘guards’ without anyone realizing his presence. This time, however, he equipped a pair of blades onto his wrists while gripping his baton, and screamed his sole thought out as he sprinted to confront the “heroic” metas again.

“This is going to be fun!”

— End quote

OOC: The ‘distraction’ that explains how two sets of metas were able to get into the compound.

The strange figure standing up after the carnage that Gabriel Cherub and Windrider had inflicted surprised Cherub. “This one must be the meta that the USS Ambassador was talking about,” Cherub called out to Windrider. “Be wary, I don’t know what he does.” No sooner had Cherub finished talking when the shadowy figure disappeared and reappeared next to the Golden Rogue reinforcements, and pulled his blades out. Abaddon be damned, he can teleport! Cherub thought. Cherub readied his staff, and observed Windrider channeling his powers. We could handle this meta together, but I don’t know about the grunts along with the meta. I think both of us are going to separate Subject-145 from the grunts.

Windrider launched a localized tornado at the gaggle of grunts and Subject-145 just inside the compound. Gabriel Cherub added some debris to the tornado by using the whip feature on his staff to throw a bunch of desks and chairs and other similar objects at the grunts and Subject-145. Subject-145 was too fast, grabbing a grunt and teleporting with him out of the path of the tornado. He reappeared in front of Cherub and shoved the grunt at Cherub, disorienting Cherub. Subject-145 used the lost focus of the demon to dance around Cherub, slashing at him. Cherub, outmatched by a superior speedster, had to use his instincts, blocking where he believed the slashes were going to be. His natural armor provided some protection, but it was only a matter of time before a slash would hit a weak point. Luckily for Cherub, when one of Subject-145’s slash was parried, the momentum carried his blade into a nearby desk, getting stuck in the wood. Unfortunately, Cherub lost control of his staff in the attack, and it flew just out of reach. By this time, some of the grunts not directly in the path of the tornado had recovered from having debris thrown at them and started to fire their weapons at Cherub. Cherub dove behind a desk to avoid the weapons fire.

Both fighters broke off the engagement and tried to retrieve their weapons. Subject-145 was able to successfully pull his blade out of the desk, and Cherub grabbed his weapon. Unfortunately, a grunt successfully shot Cherub with his rifle, giving Cherub a small amount of damage. Subject 145 teleported into the tornado, grabbed a heavy object, and pulled it out, using the force of the wind to add momentum to his throw as he teleported once again and heaved it at Windrider. Windrider was able to get out of the way but did receive a glancing hit on his left shoulder by the heavy object.

Cherub, meanwhile, attempted to grab the heavy object with his whip, but could not grab it in time. He caught it after Windrider was hit and slung it at the guards. Two TGR grunts are hit with the thrown object, leaving only four still conscious. Luckily for Cherub, the object nicked 145 as he teleported to slash at Windrider, impacting the teleporter’s attack. Even while hurt, Windrider is able to dodge the subsequent throat-slashing attack by Subject 145.

Windrider flew up but was limited by his field of vision into the compound. Fortunately, Windrider locked on to Subject-145 and threw a lightning bolt at him, and successfully hit Subject-145 with it. Electricity coursed through Subject-145, and shot him back across the compound, hitting a wall and landing near the four remaining grunts. Subject-145’s already insane brain was addled by the bolt, but somehow his speed got replenished as the neurons in his body worked on overdrive.

The tornado, meanwhile, dissipated, as Windrider’s eyes blazed pure white behind his shades as dark clouds began rolling in above the compound, along with the sound of distant thunder that could be felt more than heard. Something more ‘dangerous’ has caught Windrider’s attention and that ‘something’ was Subject-145.

Windrider was successfully able to channel the dangerous winds and the storm, causing the power to swirl around him. However, the injury he received made his ability to handle the immense power of the storm difficult. Meanwhile, Cherub was very quick with his strong leg, kicking a heavy desk at the remaining TGR grunts and Subject-145. It hit the grunts dead-on, rendering them incapacitated, and clipped Subject-145 on one of his legs as he teleported away. Subject-145 did something Cherub did not expect, and as Cherub readied himself for the maniac to reappear, Subject-145 teleported above Cherub’s head, grabbed the top of the staff while saying, ”Hey, this looks nice. Imma borrow this reeaaalll quick!”, and used his momentum to slam Cherub backwards. Cherub’s hands hit the ground first, and he lost control of his staff. Seizing the moment, Subject-145 teleported, staff and all, away from Cherub, and directly into the storm that Windrider had channeled. He threw the staff into the storm and teleported away from it. The staff flew about in the storm, whacking Windrider as it finally flew out of the storm, a good hundred feet or so away from the compound. Gabriel Cherub observed this all occur, and grimaced, for he lost the item that he can use to channel his energy powers.

Pissed off and frustrated for losing his weapon so easily, Gabriel Cherub grabbed a nearby stun baton. He attempted to power it up, but noticed its charge was gone. Seizing an idea, he called out to Windrider, “if you can shoot a charge into this baton, I bet we can give it enough juice to knock out this freak.” Windrider was busy preparing to channel the storm overheard and was not paying attention to Cherub. Not receiving a response, Cherub stood in a combat stance with the weapon, ready to defend himself against Subject-145’s attacks. Subject-145 did reappear, but he went for Windrider instead of Cherub, only responding with, “The pot is calling the kettle black!” to Cherub’s freak comment. Subject-145 teleported to attack Windrider, hoping to cripple him and putting him into eternal rest.

Through really fortunate (or unfortunate) timing, Windrider used the previous lull to channel a lightning bolt and used his electrokinesis abilities to ionize the air around him. Holding his left hand up, a huge lightning bolt came shooting down from the storm clouds above and right into his hand. Immediately his whole body was surrounded by a blindingly intense white lightning field, disrupting and ionizing the very air surrounding Windrider. He smirked at Subject-145, also grimacing from the wound, and yelled, “you’re not grounded now!”

The final ionization of the air took place just as Subject-145 teleported behind Windrider. Subject-145 was able to get one slash off, before being absolutely pummeled by the electricity in the air. He was blasted to the ground and fell as a crumpled heap, incapacitated in his legs due to the fall. Unfortunately for Windrider, due to his previous injury, he was unable to control the amount of electricity in the air, and he also got blasted to the ground. He was able to cling to consciousness, however, though he rested on one knee for a good amount of time so as to reorient himself.

Seeing the crumpled mess of Subject-145 on the ground, Gabriel Cherub sprung up, baton ready to knock him out, but as he tried to whack the maniac with his baton, Subject-145 vanished. Subject-145 reappeared, still in a heap, about 20 feet away. Springing forward, Cherub tried again, but missed due to Subject-145 teleporting again, and again. To Cherub, it appeared that the blast Subject-145 took caused his brain to get so addled that he was unable to control his powers. He couldn’t stop teleporting around the compound!

Gabriel Cherub realized that he would waste precious time to try and catch Subject-145, so he walked over to Windrider and steadied him, and looked out to the carnage that took place inside that compound. He also noticed a mess of bodies that weren’t the result of the fighting between these three metas and surmised that someone else must have used the distraction they caused to sneak into Ketch’s lair.

[Furnifold]

Dr. Ketch could not have envisioned what had gone wrong with his whole ordeal. Desperation drove him to inject the USS scientist with the new rage compound, but the scientist devolved into a mutated gorilla-like creature, and the rage compound then drove it insane. Ketch was able to grab his chemistry notes and stuff them into a backpack as the Golden Rogue guards attempted to placate the creature. Ignoring the screams of the other USS scientists, Ketch went over and removed the small barrier blocking the entrance of the tunnel leading to the surface, and slipped through the entrance. He turned around to see the body of a guard flying towards the entrance, hitting the wall nearby and adding some debris to cover his path. At least that thing won’t come after me, he thought.

Ketch hustled through the tunnel; in his backpack he carried a small syringe with USS-developed meta-tranquilizer, as well as a firearm, in case he ran across a meta or a human. It took him about eight minutes to traverse through the tunnel and arrive at the surface, near the back of the compound. He checked his phone for service, and had to waste precious time for the cell to get reception. Ketch needed to get service to call in a TGR helicopter to pick him up. Even if my compound wasn’t perfected yet, I am sure the Rogues would make use of a compound that turns a human into a rage-filled ape, he thought. He could also hear the sound of crackling lightning and the clashing of steel, as Gabriel Cherub, Windrider, and Subject-145 were fighting. I’m still needed, and I will take my chances with TGR over the metas any day.

He got a signal, and sent a distress call to nearby TGR forces, and waited for his phone to light up with coordinates nearby to go to. He bent down to adjust his backpack and pull out the firearm, when he heard an inhuman howl, and watched as the mutation emerged from the tunnel. The mutation was wounded, definitely evident by blood trickling out of its mouth and back. It had a paw over its eyes, as it probably had not adjusted to the outside light yet. That was Ketch’s only advantage. The beast would have to rely on its other senses, so if Ketch could keep quiet, the mutation wouldn’t find him.

Ketch, white-faced and terrified, stood up, leaving his backpack with his notes and the meta-human tranquilizer, and backed away slowly, looking down every so often to make sure he wouldn’t step on anything. The mutation did not seem to notice the mad scientist, and was attempting to rub its eyes and get at its wounds. Ketch was backing away slowly, and also noticed that the sounds of fighting between the three metas ceased. That quiet did not help, however, as his phone pinged from the response from the Golden Rogues. They were sending a helicopter, and had messaged over the coordinates to the copter. Unfortunately, that ping was noticeable enough for the mutation, as it spun around and lumbered over to the origin of the sound. Ketch was doomed; he couldn’t move or else the beast would hear him, but it was only a matter of time before the beast could see or smell him. Ketch just stood as still as possible, wishing with all his being that there was another sound to distract the beast…

Luckily for Ketch, Celaeno emerged from the tunnel with a similar howl of rage that the beast gave. This prompted the mutation to turn around and howl right back, and square itself up to face its old ‘prey’. Ketch used this opportunity to take off at full speed, his phone in one hand and the handgun in the other, and he ran to the location on his phone to hopefully be picked up by the arriving helicopter. Screw my notes, all the information I need is in my brain. And my brain is telling me to get outta here!Let that creepy girl deal with the mutation. Clearly the Golden Rogues need more metas to help secure their undertakings.

[Furnifold]

After the battle between Telarusi and Aperture concluded, the Metrotech investigative team sent to bring Telarusi to a field office surveyed the damage. They were in Xagrurg with half the plane; the other half was probably in some freezing region, they surmised. Luckily there did not seem to be any injuries, but the with the other half of the plane were the pilots. One of the team members made a call to Metrotech, to notify them about the situation. “What happened?” he repeated the line of questioning. “The spawn of the devil lit up right in front of us, and then, somehow, there was another meta, a woman, who jumped from a freaking tree onto our jet. She literally split it in half, and caused a portal to transport us to some cold region, and then back into Xagrurg. We’re here; the pilots are in the Arctic, and both of the metas disappeared.”

Not exactly the most stellar day for Metrotech, Urth’s premier technological corportation. Specializing in augmentations, Metrotech has been on the cutting edge of biotic implants, which attempt to mimic the powers that some metas possess. The easy ones were the augmented strength and clarity of mind; it was almost like taking a drug. But Metrotech’s newest project was simulating the elements, to use the biotic implants to transcend the laws of physics and chemistry, and actually control earth, fire, air, water. Needless to say, the discovery of Telarusi presented to the CEO of Metrotech, Diana Prince, a cash cow and a prime research opportunity.

And the meta was not in her grasp.

She fumed when told the news. Surprisingly, there was no response from the USS yet, though chances were that they would be heading out to Yor right now. The USS meddling problem was easy to handle, but the meta situation was not. She wanted so badly to take the portal-creating meta, but her company’s scientific fortunes resided in the fire-generator. Clearly the situation required more tact and precision; the damage to Yor and the battle on the Metrotech jet were indicators of that. Diana Prince rifled through her list of contacts, and settled on one, Urth’s most noteworthy and infamous meta bounty hunter. This stands the best chance of working, she thought. Though he prefers the contracts stipulate the metas are to die. I’ll need to tell him to keep my prize alive.

She placed the call…
[hr]
In a small abandoned warehouse somewhere in Concord, a towering man pulled the corpse of someone recently killed into the middle of the room. At his heels were two strange-looking animals with dark black fur. The large man grabbed his sword, and proceeded to cut off a hand of the corpse, and place it in a small bag. With a wave of his hand, he motioned to the animals, and they began to devour the body. As the animals were tearing the body up, he received a call from Diana Prince. He saw the number and answered it, not saying a word. A few seconds of silence went by until Prince said,

“Is this Yautja?”

Still silence.

“Oh, right. There’s been a death in our family.”

The man responded. “Who died?”

“Your uncle, Telarusi.”

“Yes, Telarusi. So sad. He was a good one. I will pay his a house a visit, settle his affairs. Would you like a memento of him?”

Understanding that Diana Prince was supposed to respond with a body part of Telarusi, to ensure the deed was done, she instead said, “No mementos, in fact, his widow needs to be comforted. I think it would be best if you were to bring his… widow… back to Aurora. I’ll send you the address.” Hopefully that is the correct phrasing to indicate Telarusi is to be captured alive.

There was a pause on the other end, and then a, “Okay, but I’ll need money to travel, as well as to rent a tux for the funeral.”

“I’ll send over half of it now, and make sure that you have all the remaining money-plus expenses- you ask for.”

“Fine. Send me the information. I’ll bring his widow to you.”

The man hung up. He waited for his phone to ping with the image and information of Telarusi, and the drop point he was to bring the meta to. He observed his pets mangling the corpse, so as to ensure foul play wasn’t suspected. To an investigator, the person had died and the doors were left open, and scavengers ate him. This person just happened to be a meta, and Yautja watched as green blood flowed out of the corpse. A job well done, he thought. Satisfied at how the mangled body turned out, he snapped his fingers at his pets, opened up a small snuff box, and snapped his fingers again. Immediately the animals were sucked into the box, shrinking as they went in. He closed the box, put it into his pocket, and sheathed his sword. His phone chimed, indicating that the information he requested from Diana Prince had arrived. Yautja looked at the information, and deleted it from his phone. He grabbed his mask from a nearby table, put it on, and muttered a spell. Immediately he was enveloped in black, and he disappeared, leaving behind an empty warehouse with the cargo door wide open and a mangled corpse, a former meta.

Yautja completed this contract, and his new contract was Telarusi.

[PunnyShadow]

OOC:REVISIONS IN PROCESS

[King_Rico]

(Joint 2 Part Post between Me, Duel, and Spartan)

Aperture looked at Telarusi in shock, “I assumed being that you are a demon of some sort you would know this”, Telarusi walked towards her confused “yes we must find both crystals but where do we look?”. Aperture opened a portal “I guess we will have to check every continent starting with Atlantia”, they walked through the portal into a bustling duelland capital. Telarusi body began to tingle, he’s here I feel the crystal" they looked around and noticed people running “Quick this way!”. They arrived to see Scorpionok flipping through cars , “WERE IS THAT CRYSTAL! I can smell it, the crystal of strength!” Suddenly out of nowhere a merman like creature appeared dripping with water walking down the street “who are these intruders coming into Duelland!” He levitates toward Aperture and Telarusi “Who are you! And What are you doing in the Land of Duelland where the Merman Kai reigns” Kai said it with a smirk “No person dares to come into Duelland without looking for trouble, are you looking for trouble?” He looks at them with a straight face. “We are not looking for trouble, we are looking for my Crystal!”

Scorpionok turned around and saw the three standing in the street he grew to around 7’2 and smiled, “In time, you will know what it’s like to lose. To feel so desperately that your right, but still fail. Pray on it, run from it Urth’s destiny will arrive”. He approaches them before removing the gravity around the three causing them to float, “Fun isn’t something I consider when you hold the balance to the universe, but this will bring me more joy than you know it” he proceeds to grab Telarusi throwing him into the ground before punching his face into the concrete. Kai uses his strength to grab Scorpionok and slams him “Let me say it again, who dares to come to Duelland looking for trouble!” He said it and slams him again. “I’m Kai the Most Powerful Merman on Urth and he who dares to challenge the Kai will see the evilness of Kai” he says while having his hand on Scorpionok face.

Telarusi looked up from the ground at Kai hitting Scorpionok, “Oh shit” he thinks to himself. The dark power starts to wrap around Scorpionok, he grabs Kai by the neck lifting him up “You fool, do you dare challenge your savior” he proceeds to throw him into the building. Aperture flies towards him with her sword, the golden lights start to wrap around the sword as she stabs him, she screams before knocking him to the ground. Her eyes lit a red color as she started reshape the entire area into mirrors, Scorpionok and Aperture collided Fist creating a explosion which knocked her back down to the ground. Aperture quickly flew back towards him before he grabs her throwing her to the ground. “What the hell!” He says in shocked “How is Scorpionok so strong” Kai looks at Scorpionok and grabs a light pole and whacks him with it “I’m reaching to point where you getting me mad and you don’t want to see me mad!” He said angrily. Scorpionok looks at him with his purple eyes, the death crystal controlling him more and more as he wears it, “You can not defeat, no one can defeat me!! I will destroy your world and rule the universe and everyone in it just stay down…” just as he was finishing his sentence Telarusi hit him into a building and Aperture followed with her special move ‘Reality blast’ she threw Scorpionok into a different part of the Urth via a portal. She then proceeds to open a portal to a small village in duelland as she continues her hunt for 145 “You guys coming or what ? The world is not going to save itself!”. Kai looks at Aperture “oooh I’m coming to get this guy, talking about do you dare challenge your savior” he says as he follows Aperture.

Eidolon was gazing at nothing as she leaned against a wall. She had just recently returned from a killing contract. She was visibly shaken as she did not want to kill that village farmer and was still remembering the gory details. She did get her money though, and plans to go to the bookstore at some point to buy some new books. She also wanted to buy some new gear. Eidolon is planning to go to Zukchiva soon. She quickly turns invisible as she notices a portal appearing near her. After a moment of thinking, she decides she will follow whatever exits the portal for some time and see if it would give her any information. Many of her contracts would take information as payment, and she may learn something from whatever comes out of the portal. She shrugs to herself. Maybe she would get something other than information from what ever came out of that portal.

“Who is that guy and why did he come to Duelland?” Kai says puzzled as he continues to walk with them. “That is Scorpionok, he’s a uh rather angry” Telarusi chuckled, Aperture hits him “That is our worst nightmare, he is on a hunt for the 7 Crystals Of The Universe And currently is in possession of Telarusi Crystal Of Death And Subject 145 has my Crystal Of Portal And Realms which is from my home planet of Simoria.” What are these Crystal and what do they do?" Kai asks. Aperture warps the scenery around them , “the 7 Crystals Of The Universe, Death, life, strength, magic, Portal & Realms, time, and Omega Contirka Crystal when you collect all seven you will gain unimaginable powers while also releasing the dark spirits and Old gods and everything in between. I am the god of Portal And Realms, I protect the balance of life and prevent the use of portal use by mortals, my mother guarded the crystal she was Queen. Upon calling Subject 145 for trial on my planet, when the guard came to get him from Urth he killed him and travel to Simoria and found the Crystal before killing my mother. We tried to catch him but once the crystal was gone the portal closed, I was the only one to make through the portal I lost my horse along the way and now I can’t return home without getting the crystal. The other crystal are scattered across the world, I had faint feeling from the crystal that he was here but I was wrong. Scorpionok carries the chain for all 7 crystals he will not stop until he has them all and destroys your world, unfortunately he beat us to Gondwana were he had already stolen the death crystal from some dead scientists and pounded this robot guy into the ground.” Aperture leaves the warp so they can visually see everything she is saying. “This man Scorpionok is a psycho, what kind of powers does he have cause after throwing a couple punches with him he strong as hell!” Kai says as he looks at his bruised hip.

Telarusi walked over to Kai, “so mind introducing who exactly you are?” He touches him with his skeleton finger lit with a royal blue flame to match his skin color. “I’m Kai the Merman also known as the King of the Sea, Protector of the Ocean” He says with pride " I control the weather and the ocean, I protect every sea creature, even humans especially from the Land of Duelland" he continues “That is all your gonna know about me for now” he says with a straight face.

Aperture pushes Telarusi into a tree, “you have to ignore him, he can be a A-hole, it’s a pleasure to meet you I’m sorry for intruding on your land. Would you be interested in teaming up with us to stop him from destroying your planet?”. “Hmm of course! I’ll come and help you guys to save the my planet!” He says joyfully

[King_Rico]

(Joint Post Me & Cel!)

After the intense fight with the two heroic metas, Subject 145 continued to, unwillingly, teleport farther and farther away from the Golden Rogues hideout with no end in sight. As he couldn’t control his teleportation power, Subject 145 gave up resisting the uncontrollable power and decided to just go with the flow, hoping that he would end up in a ‘favorable’ location, preferably a nice, isolated little town to visit. Perhaps he would make a friend or two.

Meanwhile, Scorpionok body slowly began to cave to the dark powers of the crystal, his eyes turned a dark purple as he tore through everything in site, while attempting to fight off the spirit he stumbled over a bolder and felled before passing out.

After an hour of random teleportation, Subject 145 noticed that his random teleportation ceased to exist as he finally sat down to take a short break and massage his aching head. While he took a moment of relaxation, he noticed a body that was only a few feet away from him. Noting the body continuing to rise and fall but failing to notice the chaos it had left behind, 145 had just seemed to find a fun distraction to keep him occupied as he teleported over the body. After a short moment of studying, 145 took a stab at the body.

Scorpionok was amidst a dream with the Old gods when suddenly he felt a piercing of his skin, his eyes open and his green pupils dilated. He took a quick grab of Subject 145 neck before throwing him into a nearby log, the blade on his wrist came out when Subject 145 was tossed, he made a grunting noise when his 7 crystal chain started to react funny. “You there, what do you have who are you!! Bow to your leader”

Normally being able to shrug off such a blow, 145 felt painfully sore as he had yet to recover from the previous fight. Regardless, he emitted a small laugh while he stood back up and said.

“This,” he held up his blade with Scorpionoks warm blood dripping down," is your blood, and I would like to obtain more for my next masterpiece! As for who I am. . ."

He proceeded to mockingly teleport around the new foe, his new toy, he echoly shouted.

“I am the Butcher of Gondwana! And I will be your demise!”

Scorpionok chuckled at Subject 145, the bleeding slowly stop and his skin slowly grew back. He smiled “You know… you should hit harder” he smiled before removing the gravity causing everything to float, “you can’t see the greater plan, for thousands of years I’ve dreamed of destroying this ratchet planet. You humans and vulpines disgusting piece of trash!”

The chain started shaking more vibrantly, “you have a crystal boy, give it to me and I will spare your life”. As he talked the black spirits started to control his body, his eyes turned black and a black smoke started to spin around him.

“Woah! This is fun!” The Subject gleefully stated at the sudden loss of gravity. Forgetting the situation he was in and ignoring the conversation all together, he proceeded to “fly” around the area. Unknowingly to the demon, 145 was plotting out his next phase of attack while he silently studied him.

Scorpionok looked at him as he levitated with the spirits following behind him, he grabbed his forehead and created a illusion of 145 stealing the Crystal Of Portals & Realms. “What a little piece of nothing, a spec in the sand a thief!” he posed as Aperture mother in the illusion “Subject 145 you have been summoned for your wrong doings how do you plead!”

“Guilty!” Subject 145 shouted.

As he remembered, he teleported and slashed at the necks of the guards present once again. Taking a moment to appreciate the sight, when he notice their wings, he suddenly had an idea.

“You know, you remind me of the mystical angels that gondwanan Christians believe in. Its really a shame God couldn’t save them in time.” With another laugh, he continued, “Unfortunately for you, I always prefered the fallen angels!”

He then attempted to rip off a simorians wings to symbolize their downfall.

The Simorian proceeded to grab Subject 145 with his wing, closing him in tightly “Urth, a primitive place” he tossed him to the queens foot “As Guardian Of The 7 Realms, you have went against everything that protects you and the rest of the Realms. Your evil way of life, no care for any other creature but yourself, selfishness and foolishness is frowned upon by us”

Aperture mother proceeded to stand up in her white and gold robe, the necklace carrying the crystal of Portal & Realms around her neck she leans down to him “Death is your sentence” she whispers in his ear.

“Heh, you talk like you know me. . .”

With his hands shaking, he used his superior speed to punch her straight in the face, using this moment to stand up and face his offender to vent out his anger.

“Well, you don’t know me! You don’t know what I am or how I got to where I am! Oh, just because your high and mighty and know a ‘little bit’ about me doesn’t mean your so superior than me that you can decide my fate! I AM YOUR SUPERIOR, AND I SAY YOU DIE!”

He then launched a series of punches on Apertures mother in his enragement of remembering a rather unpleasant event. When he saw more guards coming, he decided to kill them where they stand.

The Guards attempted to fight back but were quickly defeated, the mother soon felled to the ground and the chain fell off, Aperture and the female warriors rushed towards the court as fast as they could hoping to catch him before he left.

After killing off the guards, he continued his assault on the mother. With each punch getting bloodier and bloodier, Subject 145 decided to leave the mother alone for now as he breathed heavily in an attempt to kill off his emotional rage. Not remembering he was reliving this moment, he saw the necklace she wore on the ground and decided to keep the beautiful little piece for himself as he placed it in his pocket. He heard the upcoming arrival of the others and decided to “cut a little off the top” of the mother really quickly while he slashed out her eyes.

Aperture raced towards him as she runs towards the portal “SUBJECCCT 145555!!” She jumped through just before the portal closed. Scorpionok tossed Subject 145 into a group of trees once he was done, “Ahh so you do have a crystal, the crystal of Portal & Realms amazing… you have killed a angel I give you props there dude. But now the time has come…” Scorpionok proceeds to increase the gravity making it hard for Subject 145 to move from his spot as Scorpionok levitates towards him.

Subject 145, snapping back into reality from his illusion, finally realized the dire situation he was in. After taking a moment of realization, he suddenly remembered the crystal he had due to Scorpionok. He hatched an idea.

“I can give you the crystal, but maaaaaybeeee I’ll give it to you faster if there was lighter gravity where I am.”

Scorpionok chuckles, “do you really think I’m that stupid, hand the crystal over or die” he eases the gravity slightly allowing for movements of Subject 145 muscles at a slow rate.

“Heh, close enough.”

Subject 145 grabbed a crystal from his pocket and toss it to Scorpionok. It was not the Portal Crystal, but a weaker replica of the crystal.

Scorpionok grabs it and backs up, he releases the gravity and starts walking off into the forest.

“Time to get out of here.” The Subject said to noone.

Teleporting away from Scorpionok as he realized he didn’t want another difficult fight (once Scorpionok realized he held a false crystal) nor face the previous troublesome metas, Subject 145 ran into another direction, guided by fate.

[King_Rico]

Scorpionok had return to where he originally made contact with Subject 145, when Scorpionok put the phony crystal into his necklace he noticed it didn’t activate. He had been fooled by a Urthling, it increased his rage. He had been hopping around the planet for a few days before landing in Kuthernburg, as he walked through the cold forest he noticed two individuals standing in the middle of the trail, they lit up the dark trail with a bright orb above one of the individuals head almost similar to a halo. Next to him was a dog like creature with fancy jewelry, suddenly someone spoke “Why are you here?”, Scorpionok looked in confusion “who is there bow to your savior mortal” the figures stepped closer, it was Tessnei and Velgez. Tessnei chuckled “You Shouldn’t talk to a god and angel in such a way, you could be killed”.

Scorpionok looked in shock at Tessnei height and pale blue skin, his white hair, violet eyes and rather effeminate features all struck him. Then he noticed on the long scepter was ancient writings 1,000s of years old and inside the blue orb that floated on top of it was the Crystal Of Time. Tessnei obtained it on his visit to Planet Flolla while in training to work alongside Velgez, it was a gift to help him with his control of his ability to Travel through dimensions, to banish and the ability to rewind or fast forward time itself. His greatest pride was that the Crystal gave him his ability to completely erase time from any planet or universe thus banishing the planet of universe into a black hole to be destroyed.

Scorpionok looked up at him, Tessnei looked back, he noticed the Dark spirts around his body. He looked up and realized what he had in his possession he smiled, “Ahh the Old gods I can feel their presence, Velgez maybe we should just kill him now” Tessnei chuckled. Velgez looked at Scorpionok “mmm maybe not… I kinda want to see what he is capable of, I mean it’s a win win for us we could kill him at any time.” Scorpionok looked in shock he knew he had no chance against either one so he backed down, “Shoot shoot before we let Fannel have at you” Tessnei said.

[Furnifold]

The middle of a city in Duelland had seen some serious conflict. Emergency crews were out, removing cars and debris from the side of the road, trying to fix broken wires and other materials. There had clearly been a fight between metas, and it was a devastating one for the city. The crews were grumbling, cursing their supposed protector, Kai, for demolishing the city, and wishing the lot of metas were eradicated. Nobody noticed a strange hooded figure with a mask walking among them, beasts at his side. He strode around with a purpose, not letting people get in his way. If there was someone in his way, the person would unconsciously move to the side to let him pass. It was like Yautja and his hell-hounds were like specters.

Yautja eavesdropped on the head of the operation talking to an underling. Besides complaining about the USS needing to send a team out there, perhaps creating a Department of Damage Control for the influx of battling metas, there really was not anything useful coming out of this conversation. Finally, one of the underlings asked which metas did the damage.

The head of operations responded. “Since all of these blasted metas were yelling their names over and over again, we know exactly who did this. It was this truck of a meta, Scorpionok, and then our ‘protector,’ Kai. There were also two others involved; a meta named Telarusi, and one named Aperture. After they battled each other, the one named Aperture opened up a portal and took the others elsewhere.”

Yautja took this news as a good sign, as he had observed Aperture’s telltale portal signatures around the demolished city. Clearly Telarusi and Aperture had teamed up together, and all he would need to do would be to find Aperture to get to Telarusi. He looked at one of his hell-hounds, whispered an incantation, and had the beast lead him to the nearest remnant of a portal signature. Upon arriving, he whispered another incantation, and the remnants of the portal twisted and shifted, and opened up in front of him. Without a second thought, he stepped through the portal, which took him to a small village in Duelland. A low chuckle escaped his lips as he thought about the situation, also following the portal’s residual magic through the town. If Telarusi continues to travel with Aperture, leaving this path of destruction in his wake, finding them will be all but guaranteed.

[King_Rico]

(Pt 2 of the Hellraisers Joint Post)

Eidolon had enough. She had no clue what they were talking about, but they were not doing anything! Normally she was patient, but this triade had gone to far. Quietly so that she does not make a sound, she stalks over to where Telarusi is. Eidolon silently slipped her knife out of her sheath, and slowly put it to Telarusi’s neck, and stood right next to him. The knife was a hairbreadth of touching his skin. She then quickly turned visible while quickly looking at Aperture. “Begin to… explain this nonsense you are talking about, or the next thing you will see is his head rolling on the grass.” she growled. She hoped Aperture would be intimidated and not attack her.

Telarusi chuckled, he turned into a large blaze melting Eidolon knife and blew her back into some shrubs, in Telarusi demon form his blue fire rose high over his body from anger. He walked towards Eidolon “You sin, I shall destroy you!” As Telarusi jumped towards Eidolon, Aperture warped everything into mirrors causing Telarusi to crash into them. “Who are you, and what do you want or do I need to unleash him!” Aperture shouted.

Eidolon quickly threw the ruined knife away as she was blown back. She hit a tree and fell down but quickly got up. She could already feel the bruising along her thighs. Aperture shouted again, “Who are you? this is my last time asking!” Eidolon growled at her. “I am Eidolon”, she said. “I want to understand the nonsense you were sputtering out earlier! What are these crystals? How do they affect the world?” At this point Eidolon realized that she was outnumbered and overpowered, and decided that a blunt approach was the best approach.

“Why exactly should I tell you? You could be a enemy like Scorpionok!” Aperture screamed. Telarusi started breaking through the glass mirrors, heading for Eidolon. "Eidolon you better get to talking, why did u follow us?"Aperture said. Eidolon looked at Aperture. “We are not on a first name basis.” She said coldly. “I was here after finishing a contract. When you guys came in the portal, well information pays in many things. You should have been more careful about what you were saying.”

“Or I could let Telarusi have at you, look I’m not here for the lecture. I’m trying to save your world from destruction, I guess it doesn’t pay good if your dead” Aperture says angrily, she lets warp go and stabs her sword into the ground causing a large crack. Telarusi leg felled in as he walked, Aperture walked up to Eidolon, “maybe we got off on the wrong foot, I’m Aperture god Of Portals & Realms from planet Simoria, that’s Telarusi a demon from hell and our new friend Kai.” Eidolon backs up a step, before standing her ground. “I am Eidolon, assassin for hire.” She quietly nods to Telarusi and Kai. “I do not know what you mean by saving the world, but if it helps you, I do want to join. If the world dies I can’t read any more books.” Eidolon nods to herself. “Can I join you?” Eidolon realized that whoever these people were, they were way stronger. Unless she wanted to die, she had no choice but to listen to them. Telarusi calmed down, his flames lowered and his face return to normal. Aperture looked at her, “Sure, we best get a move before Scorpionok finds the other crystals. The crystal of life is located in the center of the planet but only someone with a pure heart can access it” Telarusi creates a heat shield around the group as Aperture opened up the portal to center of the planet.

[Furnifold]

“We give thanks to Om, who sustains us.”

“Such is the way of Om.”

“Let us chant our praises and worship to the Om the Eternal.”

“For it is just.”

In a large basement in Atlantia, a group of hooded figures stood in a large circle, clasping hands and looking at the ground. Deep hums emanated from their throats as they chanted in an undecipherable language. Their leader, a hooded figure with dark blue cloth embroidered on his cloak, carried a large book and led the chanting. The leader is Jason Blood, and the group he presides over is known as the Followers of Om, a cult based in Atlantia that worships magic, and who they believe the granter of magic is the mystical being Om. Their following had seen a dip in believers recently, as there was a noticeable group of people straying to the demonic being Scorpionok. Blood was not going to call these believers heretical just yet, but they were surely approaching that stage.

Suddenly the doors to the basement open, and a group of hooded figures draped in red came in. They numbered about a dozen, about half the size of the Followers’ number. They were led by Mark Etrigan, Jason Blood’s former right-hand man and former apprentice. Jason Blood grimaced, he could sense what was coming. The group of red-cloaked individuals broke up the circle and came in, standing in the middle, facing the blue-cloaked Blood. “Jason Blood, this is your last chance to follow the True Believers,” Etrigan called out.

“Scorpionok is a false prophet, he abuses the power graced to him by Om the Eternal. You have allowed this dark thing to twist your mind, until now you have become the very thing we have sworn to eradicate,” was the response from Blood.

“Don’t lecture me, Blood. We see through the lies of the Followers, your deity is nothing, and we do not fear the power of the demon as you do.” Etrigan said, rage boiling over.

Blood responded simply, “Then you are lost. By the power vested in me, you and your cult are heretics of the one true faith, and are hereby excommunicated from the Followers of Om.”

Etrigan was livid, and screamed out “No,” over and over again. “We are the True Believers, and you are the heretics. We will destroy you.” The Followers broke their circle and formed around their leader, while the True Believers did the same around their leader.

The two sides faced each other, neither side daring to strike first. Finally Etrigan screamed, and cast a spell, launching a fireball at Blood. One of the Followers jumped in front of their leader, becoming immolated and falling to the ground. This was the final straw for Jason Blood, and he yelled out in anger, heaving ice at his former apprentice. Like the Followers, a True Believer acolyte jumped in front of the ice and was skewered by it. The Followers and True Believers squared off, taking cover behind whatever they could find and hurling arcane magic at each other. People were being lit on fire, drowned, buried in the ground, and crushed under rocks. Numbers played into the Follower’s hand, as they drove the remaining True Believers towards the entrance. With a final scream, Etrigan yelled, “We will be back, my former master, and when we do, this will be the end of you.” Uttering something demonic and arcane, hands enveloped him and his remaining followers, and pulled them into the ground, leaving Blood and the Followers to assess the damage. An acolyte asked Jason, “Master Blood, what are we going to do?”

“We will need to recruit magical individuals to our faith, I fear that Atlantia is going to become the new battleground between the forces of good and evil, and Urth may lie in the balance.” Jason Blood said cryptically, staring off into the distance.

[hr]
The True Believers were thrown out of the portal they created, some throwing up or emptying their bowels as they had just traveled through the underworld. Coming into contact with demons left an unnatural tinge in the air, and some of the True Believers had red skin, arcane tattoos emblazoned on their skin, or nubs of hard horn-like substances on their heads. The magic of the demons had corrupted them, as it had with Scorpionok. No one was more corrupted than Etrigan, who had red pupils, yellow skin, teeth that became large and sharp, and large horns sprouting out of his bald head. He observed his new look, smiled, and said to his acolytes, “Do not fear the powers you just tapped into, we are becoming stronger by channeling out demonic brothers. Now, let us find our master, Scorpionok, and let us gather more believers to our cause.”

The demon-human morph, Mark Etrigan, and the True Believers walked out into the small village they had arrived in, confident they had been dumped out of the underworld near to where Scorpionok was located, and ready to follow their new master.

[Pagi]

[spoiler]Somewhere west of Caltharusian Arcturia, 1979

Thud, my shovel had struck wood. I stood straight up and motioned to my commanders that I had found the artefact. At this point, the bound natives held at gunpoint who had come to stop us began viscously screaming again, uttering a mixture of occult phrases and violent threats at us as I dug.

“You white men dare unearth our slumbering ancestors!” one woman wailed, disturbingly, in fluent Axdan. “By the wrath of Guuquita and Somm you will pay for this with your lives! your flesh will boil and tear forever!”

One of the grim-faced soldiers planted the butt of his rifle into her temple and she slumped over, the others falling silent right after. The other excavators came over to me and helped me shovel the rest of the dirt away, revealing a well rotted ornate coffin. It might have had intricate carvings on it, though it was hard to say. Grasping a crowbar, the Norogradian Archaeologist ordered us to get out of the hole, before he descended and began levering the decayed planks from the coffins’ cover out. As he pulled more planks and muttering excited remarks under his breath, my commander called me over to him, a pleased smile on his face.

“Excellent work prisoner, Your hard work just guaranteed yourself your freedom!” He said. “Not joking! Do you have family back in Norograd?”

I eyed him suspiciously for a moment, trying to see if it was a cruel trick, but he looked and sounded genuine. “Th-thank you! yes I do have family, two daughters in fact, haven’t seen them-”

But my reply was cut off as the blood-curdling, piercing scream of the archaeologist began behind me. I turned, and there he was, now out of the grave and holding a small, grey stone disc in his hands, mouth agape. Instinctively, I began backing up and as I did I could see his body begin contorting and twisting unnaturally. I was running now, my commander beside me, still staring back as his flesh animated and melded itself into bladed bone weaponry, extra prehensile limbs, bloodshot eyes, and branding itself with magical runes. Fire and destructive energy spilled from his body, horribly maiming the prisoners who surrounded him.

Not daring to look another moment, I hid myself behind a large boulder, my commander following me, terrified as there was an almighty crack followed by a deep earthly explosion. Blood splattered the ground not sheltered by the shadow of the boulder, and everything became eerily quiet. Glancing nervously at my commander, he shared my terror, but motioned for me to take a look before him. Peeking over the rock, I saw an indescribable landscape of fleshy carnage, not even the natives spared by the violent outburst. I held my stomach back, and took a tenative step forward, but the strange disc at the center caught my attention. I could hear my commander shouting after me, but I walked towards it, captivated. It spoke to me in my mind, and I could feel it was content. In my hands now, I could see it was intricately carved, impossibly so like a fractal, and It felt safe now. I turned to my commander, who was still stood by the rock, and nodded.

“Thaumaturgic artefact secured,” he barked into his radio. "Heavy losses sustained with only two survivors, including me. Immediate evac required.[/spoiler]
Exiting the elevator, the brothers were greeted by a short, dingy corridor, the heavy door at the end already forcefully opened. Carbine in hand and precognition in head, Maxxus entered the laboratory first, and was immediately greeted by a scene of recent fighting, struggle, and destruction. Soot-marked craters were spashed across the wall like lacerations, confirming that it was the work of the stealth metas.

“Damn, something intense happened here, but it’s definitely Ketchs’ lab. Its clear, search the area for documents,” He said, just noticing the row of caged, but freshly deceased scientists restrained on the wall opposite. “Jesus F*ck! The USS coats have been terminated, command is recommending mission abort.”

“Jesus, we were too late” Thomas said, rummaging around the equipment benches for any research documentation. “And either the stealth metas or ketch have cleaned up anything useful.”

“Not too long ago by the looks of things” Maxxus said, solemnly passing the recently murdered scientists. “They’re still bleeding fast and the dust hasn’t settled yet, we only missed them by several minutes tops.”

“The mission isn’t over yet then,” Thomas said. “we can still catch them, where’d they go?”

Turning, he saw the hole that had been violently bashed into the wall, and behind it, the escape tunnel. A howl of feral rage echoed from far within it as they came close.

“Alright, the lab is clean, documents missing, lets get a move on.” Maxxus said, dashing down the black tunnel, Thomas following closely behind him.

[Fortuna]

(OOC: Joint post between Fort (a.k.a me), Strat, Furni, and Dragonia!)

Celaeno was clearly in a fit of rage as she bursted out of the tunnel exit, caught off guard for a second at the slight change in lighting. As her eyes adjusted to the night light, she made out the mutation standing a small distance away, and behind the beast she noticed a man slowly back off before dashing away into the forest, leaving his belongings behind. Celaeno at the moment had no interest in the man, she only wanted to get revenge on the monster for ruining her hand. The monster must have heard her coming out of the tunnel, because the beast was already looking in her direction when she arrived. It released an ear-piercing howl and began squaring up to her, a sign that it gained some confidence since their last fight.

Celaeno smirked at the creature’s stupidity, it should have ran away when it had the chance. Now that she had caught up with it, she was going to make sure she ended this once and for all. Careful not to cut herself further, she removed the embedded metal shard from her hand and cast it aside, a gush of blood beginning to flow from the wound down her arm. The pain was almost unbearable, but she was too aggravated to notice. The blood, however, would probably make it difficult for her to use her invisibility to its greatest extent, so she quickly decided to stick with keeping the shield up. Celaeno snarled as she began walking towards the mutation, hoping to close the gap between them. With her good hand, she fired three quick energy blasts through the shield, targeting the creature’s face and arms.

As Eclipse rushed from the tunnel and doused his self-generated light, his eyes darkened as his infrared vision kicked in. Easily spotting Cel and the monster, the former of which was surrounded by her energy shield, he slowed his pace slightly and fired several shots at the larger of the two figures while steadily walking toward them.

The mutation snarled and growled, attempting to shield itself from the painful blasts of its adversaries. An animalistic impulsiveness seemed to gleam in its eye as it grabbed the backpack and leaped out of reach. Landing on the top of the compound with an audible thunk, it scampered away with the backpack in tow.

Wasting no time, Eclipse called out “Cel!” and ran towards her rough location, beckoned her to follow him in running after Ketch. He began to seemingly shimmer. Celaeno, however, paid no attention to Eclipse, instead her attention still remained on the beast as it continued climbing up the compound. Letting her prey escape once was humiliating enough, but a second time was just too far. Slowly levitating off the earth, she began to climb higher into the sky as she followed the mutation, her whole body beginning to shine brighter as her rage continued to grow.

Watching her ascend into the sky, Eclipse yelled again, “Cel!” but being given no response. Cursing in Strataric, he barely hesitated in his step as he continued after Ketch. That cherkovskiy fool! he exclaimed harshly in his thoughts, before reflecting that Celaeno’s inhibitor collar was practically useless. Creating a portal in front of him, he stepped in, his hasty stride not faltering as he emerged at the edge of his field of vision, still racing after Ketch. His eyes, seeing in infrared, scanned the area for Ketch as he went.

[hr]
Eclipse and Gabriel Cherub

Subject-145 continued to teleport around the compound, making Gabriel Cherub wary. Finally, the maniac teleported and did not reappear, to which Cherub thought, good riddance, and carried on with his search of the compound. Windrider had notified Gabriel Cherub that the storms circling above needed to be dissipated, so that the system in Gondwana could return to its normal weather pattern. Otherwise the entire continent could suffer from a drought. Windrider flew up into the air to clear the storm as well as play overwatch, while Cherub searched the compound. We got rid of one of the metas working for The Golden Rogues, but Braddock said there was at least one more, he thought, and observed the bodies of Rogue grunts littered around the compound, some dead, some unconscious. There was a pile of bodies that led off to a cargo elevator, but before Gabriel Cherub could go down it, he heard a very loud thunk above him as something landed on the roof of the compound. By Adbaddon, what was that? he thought, as he readied his staff, drawing energy into it. He willed the energy form in a cone around the front of his staff, and he leaped, pointing the front of the staff at a wall.

The force of the energy from the staff drilled through the wall of the compound, and Cherub found himself outside. He looked up, trying to see what was on the compound, but seeing nothing, he prepared himself to jump. Before he did this, he observed something appear at the edge of the jungle, but disappear in a flash of darkness. This thing has similar powers to the creature Windrider and I just faced, but it utilizes them differently. This might be the other meta. Without a second thought, Cherub leaped up into the sky, eyes and energy senses scanning on overdrive for a return of the portal. He felt something a few hundred feet away, and contorted his body to return to the ground in the general vicinity. He missed his target though, as it disappeared again. Not wasting any time, Cherub leapt up again, but this time, he noticed in a break in the jungle someone running. Right after seeing him, he felt that same energy signature nearby, somewhat closer to the man running. I think that portal-creating meta is trying to find the man running through the jungle. Gabriel Cherub contorted his body again, falling silently near the man running away. Cherub stalked the man as he ran, waiting for the meta to reappear.

[hr]
Eclipse continued, more or less hopping from one portal to another, as he rushed through the jungle, absently noting that the sudden rough weather seemed to be dissipating. His own anger at Celaeno’s. . . idiocy. Chertovskiy idiocy. fueled his pursuit of the fugitive scientist. A thought flashed into his head: I should have left her to die when we first met.

Yet, strangely, despite his usually cold disregard for human life, Eclipse wasn’t really sure he believed that he wanted that. He almost felt guilty for thinking it.

Shaking off his confusion and channeling his anger, he spotted a heat signature carrying something warm in its hand. Ketch. Placing a portal several feet ahead of the scientist, he quickly formed one in front of himself and stepped through, immediately in front of the fleeing madman. Decloaking and raising his gun, Eclipse called out, “Doctor Ketch! Drop the weapon!”

Suddenly a golden yellow tendril came out of the jungle, and wrapped itself around the gun of Eclipse. The gun was pulled down, no longer pointing at Dr. Ketch. A figure emerged from the woods, dressed in shining blue and gold armor. He was wielding a staff, and tugging on it to keep the tendril that was connected to it taut with Eclipse’s gun. “Hold on!” the man said, his gray skin peeking out under portions of the blue and gold armor. “Before you start firing at this guy, let’s have everyone calm down.” Noticing Ketch had tried to slink away, Gabriel Cherub jerked his staff so that one end touched the ground. A golden tendril came out of the ground and wrapped around Ketch’s leg. Ketch tried to move, but couldn’t, so he raised his handgun at Gabriel Cherub, who glared at him and said, “don’t try it.”

Cherub turned back to Eclipse and said, “Look, I don’t know who you are, but my partner and I are on a mission to rescue scientists that this man kidnapped. We’re also supposed to figure out what the deal is here. This Doctor Ketch, as you called him, will help us out. I’m assuming you also were sent by the USS and have the same mission? I’m Gabriel Cherub, by the way.” Gabriel Cherub relaxed his staff, and the tendril connecting Eclipse’s gun dissipated. He continued, “Before I interrogate Dr. Ketch, do you happen to know where those USS scientists are?”

Eclipse examined his gun, then looked back up. “We do indeed,” he replied, uncharacteristically gruffly. “Though I didn’t know that they were sending other USS operatives. And I’m Sable.” Though the black film retreated from his eyes, they still seemed to darken in anger as he continued. “And this scum killed them all.” He gestured to Ketch. “I found the bodies in the lab. Must have been due to a failed experiment of his.”

Gabriel Cherub paused for a second, sizing up what this person had said. He knew Sable was a meta, and did seem to know about the mission. There was no reason not to trust him, as it appeared that he and Sable were after the same thing. He nodded and turned away from Sable, and approached Doctor Ketch, who had been gesticulating wildly, disagreeing with what Sable had accused him of. Gabriel paid no attention, and grabbed the scientist, lifted him up and got close to his face. Cherub pulled down his covering that covered his lower face, allowing Ketch to see his demonic visage. “You’re taking me to these USS scientists you killed, and then you’ll be picked up by the USS.” As he was saying this, he grabbed a phone that Ambassador Braddock had given him, and then placed a call to the USS Ambassador, and requested that the Ambassador pick him up. He said to Sable, “My partner and I are going to get this guy onto the next trip to Metropolis, to stand trial for his crimes. Do you want a lift out of here, Sable?”

“No, thanks,” Eclipse replied, fingering his gun’s trigger. “I’ve got my own ride.”

[hr]
Windrider and Celaeno

Celaeno continued her pursuit of the beast, quickly closing the gap between them. The mutation was rather agile however, climbing across the GR compound with ease, but Celaeno had the advantage of levitation and “flew” over any obstacles. The creature was almost in arms-reach by now, all she needed to do was just touch the beast and absorb its energy. The thought of the amount of energy the mutation contained excited Celaeno, all of it will soon be hers. With one last push forwards, she reached out and was inches from touching the beast. That was until a unexpected burst of wind came out of nowhere and swept away Celaeno’s prey. Dumbfounded, Celaeno stopped moving, her instincts telling her to that she was in a lot more trouble. Turning off her glow, she watched as the mutation was lifted in the air by the wind, the beast howling in fright and anger at being held dozens of feet above the ground. Then in the distance, Celaeno spotted out a lone figure flying not too far away, appearing to be controlling the air around the mutation.

“A meta. . .” was Celaeno’s first thought. It took her a second before realizing that this was one of the metas who were fighting near the entrance of the hideout, the one with the wind powers. The meta must have concluded his battle there and then noticed the mutation scampering across the compound. At first, Celaeno was awed as the meta flew around, keeping the creature floating in the air, but that feeling was quickly overwhelmed with anger and hunger. How dare this meta take away her prey for his own, just when she was about to drain every last drop of energy from the beast as payment for her hand.

With a burst of energy, Celaeno swiftly floated upwards, again closing the gap between her and the creature. “That’s mine!” she shouted infuriatingly, her hand reached out as she grabbed for her floating prey. She was going to absorb all of its energy, and once she was done with that, she was going to drain all of this meddling meta’s energy too.

[hr]
Flying about 100 feet in the air, Windrider used his powers to correct the weather system he ‘hijacked’ from North Western Gondwana during the fight. Windrider sighed, “Tis better to ask for forgiveness than permission,” he muttered as the storm clouds rolled away and dissipated. Windrider all of a sudden noticed two individuals, one on the roof, and one fleeing. He used his powers over the winds, and grabbed the large mutation that was scampering across the compound’s roof and lifted it up into the air. “What do we have here?” he questioned when the thing was held in the winds about 20 feet away.

He kept an eye on the other man fleeing through the jungle brush, and watched Gabriel Cherub barrel through the compound wall and chase after him. Satisfied in his partner, he turned back to the mutation. Something else was floating up to the mutation, and the two exchanged a look, but the other person, a girl, instead went for the mutation. Windrider watched the girl drift closer to the howling mutation, unsure of her intentions, and curious as to what this new meta wants to do with the mutation.

He would not have to wait long to see what Celaeno planned on doing, as she finally reached the beast, she grabbed it with both hands and began her process of absorption. Her hands began to glow as the creature’s energy drained into her arms, and her eyes widened and a grin crossed her face, never had she felt this much energy in one single soul. The mutation, feeling its own life being drained from itself, howled and squirmed to get Celaeno off, but she was not going to let go. After a few seconds, the mutation started to slow, and then it fell limp, still hanging in the air. As its red eyes started to fade, Celaeno laughed, and she continued laughing until she was finish with the deed.

As she absorbed the last drop of energy, Celaeno let go of the mutation and floated back. Her hunger for the beast’s energy has been fulfilled, and she succeeded in getting revenge against someone who hurt her for once. She floated there in the air for a moment, letting her body relax from the chase for once, but she could not rest for long for there was still one thing she had to take care of. Seeing the backpack still in the mutation’s hand, Celaeno grabbed it and slung it over her shoulder. As she began recharging her shield, she turned her gaze over to the wind meta.

“Well isn’t this quite the predicament,” she said sinisterly with a smile, “don’t you agree, meta?”

[King_Rico]

(Hellraisers Joint Post)

As Aperture and the rest walked through the portal she stopped them, “I believe it’s best if me and Telarusi approaches them as we are guardians of crystals.” She walked up to the bridge across molten lava, as they walked across she approached the Massive structure known as the Arc. A voice spoke as they entered, “Aperture, what a surprise I’ve been awaiting you appearance”. Aperture stepped forward “Sitora, your voice I have not heard it since Slagonia felled”.

“You blew your chance to kill 145! I knew you couldn’t do it, you failed. Now you will watch Urth die” The Guards rushed towards Aperture kicking her and knocking her to the ground. Aperture looked at her new friends before shedding a tear “The guardians of the Life crystal are going to kill me now” Sitoria looked at her, “You betrayed your own kind,The judgement is death.” Telarusi looked in shock, when he remembered he was the Guardian Of Death he rushed to Aperture pulling out his sword blocking Sitoria fatal blow. The guards looked in shock before bowing “De nadi su clai” they said. Sitoria walked up to Telarusi “The Guardian Of Death has arisen” Aperture stood up before looking at Kai and the others. “Long before this, I was told to stop Scorpionok. I disobeyed orders and went to Planet Slagonia instead of protecting Urth. Upon my return 145 was already running off into the portal with crystal…I’ve failed you all, i have doomed Urth. Urth the only place in the galaxy that let my people call it… home.” Eidolon looked on impassively at all these events. For some strange reason though, she felt a slight emotion at Aperature’s speaking. She remembered how it felt to fail in many things she had done in the past, and how lonely she felt when no one comforted her. Kneeling down, she stretched out a hand to Aperture. “I need to read more books, and that means I need you. Get up or I will try and kill you right now.” she said gruffly. She had no clue on how to be nice, and had a reputation to protect. Kai saw what was going on and walks closer to Aperture “I came here to save Urth and I don’t know how I’m going to do it and I don’t know a lot about these crystal but I have you guys and we are going to defeat this Scorpionok dude!” Kai says as he puts his hand out for Apertures hand.

Aperture smiled at both while getting up, “Thank you both” she says as Sitoria walks over to Kai and Eidolon “these mortals I assume you both are with her or else you wouldn’t be here” she pats them on the back as her guards follow. “So Scorpionok has the Crystal Of Portal And Realms, sister how could you let that happen” Sitoria said to Aperture. Telrusi standing next to Kai in shock, " Si…Sis…Sister?" He asked Sitoria. “Yes sister, I’m the oldest of the two I’m 12,000 years old and have faithfully guarding this life crystal for over 2,000 years. I’ve seen all of mankind’s wars and destruction, but I didn’t help I let it happen… I won’t anymore” Sitoria replies. Eidolon waited until Sitoria was done speaking, before raising her own voice. “Yes, yes, are you going to give us this ‘life crystal’ you keep talking about? Or do we have to earn it, or fight for it?” Eidolon’s hand twitched towards her knife, before becoming still again. Being impulsive would not help her right now. Kai just listens to what being said.

Sitoria looked at Eidolon “Are you talking to the Guardian Of life in such a way, I’ll choose my words wisely if I were you” her guards approached behind her. “No I’m not going to give you the Crystal Of Life, it’s safe down here I’ll help you get those other crystals safely back to their planets” Sitoria smiled and walked through the group. Eidolon glared after her. “Shows that some people are too arrogant.” she mumbled to herself. Speaking louder, she said “So where are we going now?” Aperture looked in shock “We’re going to Yasteria over 700 years ago the Crystal Of Magic landed somewhere near present day Pax or Fortuna I think we should start on the mainland so Aperture make us that beautiful Portal of yours so we can get a move on” Sitoria says with a sassy tone.

Aperture looked at the group, “She’s a total asshole just ignore her” she proceeds to open a portal to Mainland Yasteria. “I can tell and I deal with people like her in Duelland” he says as he begins laugh “So I’ve never been out of Duelland, well the farthest place I’ve ever been is Nacata and that place has people like Sitoria” he continues to laugh.

Sitoria looked around smelling the fresh air, “hmp” she says under her breath. She starts to speak in Somorian “Ulaca Tulsa udwron besno sezfa” using her Animal control power she called on a group of camels. Sitoria armor changed into a Ancient Siomorian desert armor with a scar on her face. Aperture gave Eidolon her armor as Sitoria gave her the same outfit as her. “This will keep you safe no matter where you go, it’s a gift made of the rarest metal on Simoria” Aperture says to Eidolon. Telrusi looks at Kai “ever rode one of these before” he chuckles as he gets on the camel. Eidolon looks suspiciously at Aperture, before looking at the armor. Shrugging, she puts it on. No matter what Aperture might be, she would never hurt Eidolon, and Eidolon knew that now. She looked at the camels. “Are we going to ride these?” she asked Telrusi. “Telrusi we ride these in Duelland” he lies as he hops on the camel and falls off “It’s been a long time” he says embarrassed. Eidolon looked at Kai, before looking at the surrounding landscape. “I do not think there is camels in Duelland.” Eidolon said flatly. “Then again, I could be wrong.” Eidolon then proceeds to slowly mount the camel, and then hugs the hump in front of her. She looks at Kai. “Get on, or do you need my help?” she said gruffly to him. We do not have all day. Sitoria looked at the group “Ruk zing mulda” she says as a patch of cloud blocks the sun off “that shall keep us cool not lets get moving we have a crystal to get !” Sitoria and the rest set off into the desert.

[King_Rico]

Planet Epryi, 2,000 Light years away, 678 AD

“Zandor! You witch you have destroyed our world our home!! Treason” a green man with scales said. Zandor turned around, the Crystal Of Magic the very thing she sworn to protect took over her. She walks over to the man lifting him off his feet before sucking the fluids out his body, she flew towards the capital city to battle the last person that stood in her way, Dimora the Destroyer. Upon arriving to the city Dimora awaited her presence , “Why sister, I do not wish to kill you stop this madness!!” She screamed as Zandor raced towards her knocking her into a bunch of carts. Dimora quickly pulled out her sword to swing but Zandora knocked it out her hand, “I am not your sister, I am the Almighty Zandora Queen Of Magic ruler of the 7 Realms” She heaved Dimora lifting her into space , as she slowly lost breath she noticed the Crystal in her forehead. With all her strength she broke it out causing them to both fall back to the ground, where their impact killed them on contact. Following the incident the people of Epryi decided to send the Crystal somewhere safe, the primitive nature of humans and there lack of knowledge put Urth as a perfect candidate. Several days later the Crystal was dragged to the portal and shot down to earth landing in Yasteria.

[King_Rico]

[Hellraisers Joint Post]

“Ohhh my gosh, this is taking forever” Kai says with his face laying in the hump of camel “I’m so hungry and at this time I usually eat my lunch” his stomach begin to growl, Kai looks at the camel “Hmmm, he looks good to eat” he puts his hand out. Sitoria looks at Kai “Your one of a kind special my friend, Welcome to Pesoastuia the Temple Of Twan this is where the ancients put Crystal Of Magic and worship it.” She opens the door to find it in ruins, “Someone’s been here…” before Sitoria could turn around she noticed large footprints in the sand and a large shadow. A large black portal appeared few feet away from them, Scorpionok stepped out alongside Bezerk with the Crystal Of Death around his neck. “Do you feel the end Hellraisers ! Urths destiny has finally arrived” Scorpionok says with a Evil smile on his face. “Haha you’re funny man” Kai says as he chases after him “The hell raiser will never stand down from you Ha” Kai says as he attempts to slam Scorpionok. Eidolon quickly goes invisible, and walks over to Scorpionok. She watches as Kai tried to slam Scorpionok, before taking out her knife and slashing at Scorpionok, turning visible as she did so.

Scorpionok looked and smiled before grabbing Eidolon, lifting her off her feet by her throat squeezing tightly on her neck. Aperture drew her sword out and ran towards Scorpionok screaming “YOU PUT HER DOWN!” Knocking Scorpionok back releasing Eidolon. Bezerk ran towards Kai and Telrusi, when Tessnei arrived alongside Velgez “We can not allow you to continue Scorpionok.” Tessnei spoke in a soft voice. Scorpionok looked at Tessnei “I will have that Crystal Of time even if it means killing you”.“Scorpionok you know you won’t last very long” Kai states “your days are limited my friend” he says as he gets tridents out.

“I fear your days are limited, you misconceived what I was hinting at. I want to bring peace to your world, a world without communism or democracy, a world free from death and sickness” Scorpionok takes a deep breath before turning to Tessnei “A world ruled by me…” he grabs Tessnei by the neck before looking at him in his eyes releasing the dark energy into him frying his insides. He picks up the staff taking the Crystal Of Time, as his chain reacts the two crystals started spinning around him before locking into the chain. Kai looks at Bezerk “you’re next!” He grabs Bezerk and does ‘The Ocean Tornado’ “I will let you know if you’re weak or strong” he says as he begins to punching him. Bezerk falls back into the temple “you got a good hit on you” he proceeds to use his super speed to create a vortex around Kai before punching him. Scorpionok looks at Bezerk before disappearing into the desert. Kai takes the punch “I see you’ve got speed but you can’t outpunch me!” He laughs and he levitates ready to finish him off “It was a good fight but… Kai is unleashed Trident Stab!” He points his trident towards Bezerk and releases all of his powers upon him “Ahhhhh!” Bezerk attempts to block the spear, only for it to go through his arms into his heart causing him to fall to his knees.

Eidolon looks at Bezerk for a second with no emotion, before chasing after Scorpionok. She pumped her arms and legs and turned invisible as she did so, and took out her knife. This time she would not give him the chance to even see Eidolon finish him off. Scorpionok floated with no worries as he drifted across the desert the two crystal increasing his powers tenfold as they glowed on the chain. Eidolon continues her running, though she knows she is totally helpless against Scorpionok. In a direct battle, Eidolon would probably die in a direct fight against him. She quickly searched for any alternatives, and her hand landed instinctively on her knife. Yes, it was her last one, and yes she would be weaponless without it, but it was a last attempt to hurt Scropionok. She knew without a doubt that if he got ahold of the next crystal, securing the others would be a piece of caek. Eidolon quickly estimated distances and angles, and threw the knife at the weakest point she could find on Scorpionok. She then turned around and ran away. Eidolon did not turn back, but continued on her course. Whether the knife hit him or not, she had to get back to the group, or she would most likely die.

Scorpionok screamed in pain, he turned around before raising his hands completely stopping Time thanks to the Time crystal, he sniffs the air sensing Eidolon. The Dark spirits guide him to her motionless body, “You foolish one, the Assassin Of The Hellraisers. Do you think you could stop me?” Scorpionok grabbed her squeezing her body and hitting Eidolon repeatedly in her face. Just as he prepared to send the final blow Sitoria and Aperture flew in stabbing him. Aperture quickly grabbed her before flying off, she smiled once they landed as she notice the armor glowing gold. “Your lucky, as I told you nothing could harm you with this arm and my word was kept. A few cracked ribs maybe but you will be okay” she chuckled before patting her on the back.

[King_Rico]

Clash Of The God’s: Aperture Story

2 Months Ago, Planet Slagonia

The Galactic Warriors Of Simoria arrived to Planet Slagonia on there White horses lead by Princess Aperture, they raced towards the Slagonia army causing a large battle to breakout. Aperture stood on her horse with her sword out before she jumped off and spread her Big gold and white wings, she raced towards there strongest warrior Hamuzi God of Lava. “Hamuzi! You get down here and face me now !” Aperture screamed as he showed his face. The two approached each other face to face before punches were thrown, each punch going faster and faster tell each punch created a loud sonic boom upon collision. Aperture swung her sword missing Hamuzi by a few inches, he quickly kicked her causing her to fall to the ground. Aperture quickly gets back up flying full speed towards Hamuzi cutting his right arm off, she then lifted her sword creating a large red cloud over her causing the sword to turn a dark red with gold lines with alien words on it. “Shadun emuo ges logeta e Skoja !” She points the sword towards him causing the cloud to spread and spin down towards Hamuzi consuming his body, the Simorian warriors aware of the situation quickly flew off on there horses off the planet.

Aperture eyes turned a dark red as the cloud continued to spread, she screamed as the cloud engulfed the planet she flew down towards ground stabbing it with the sword. A large red lighting bolt flew up into the clouds creating a large black hole she pulled sword out before flying out of the way as the planet was sucked in by the black hole, the power consumption took a drain on her as she fainted on her horse.

1 Month later, Subject 145 Trial

“Subject 145 how do you plead?” The Queen said, as the armed guards looked. As he pleaded guilty he proceeded to slice the Queen throat before killing the two guards. Aperture had just returned from her glorious victory, when she notice the Portal open and 145 running with the crystal. She quickly chased after him jumping through the Portal just as it closed. As she attempted to get closer she lost her horse in the Portal as all 3 of them were thrown into different places on Urth. Unaware of her surroundings she thought the aircraft flying by was a attack, she charged towards it cutting it in half releasing Telrusi…

[Furnifold]

It was quite a trail they had created. The Hellraisers team, as they liked to call themselves, were gallivanting across Urth, with Yautja right on their tail. It had been easy to find them, as the group had used magic that was easily noticeable to the trained observer. When they engaged with Scorpionok, it was like a nuclear bomb went off in the area. Yautja had always been one step behind the group, but with the most recent battle, he finally knew how to intercept them. The bodies of Bezerk and Tessnei were evidence of what was to come. “They are after the mystical crystals that are not of this Urth,” Yautja murmured, idly fingering his necklace. He called his “hellhounds” to him, as they had finished sniffing out the battle, and he repeated the process he did a few days ago. The hounds were warped into a small snuff box Yautja carried with him, and Yautja walked away from the clearing. He was enveloped in a haze of darkness, and disappeared.

Upon reappearance, Yautja walked among the location where the Hellraisers had made camp. He observed Aperture tending to Eidolon’s wound, and watched as others sparred with each other. Unnoticeable, he listened to the group discuss their plans for saving the world from Scorpionok, and Yautja almost felt a little remorse for what he must do. This group presents the most organized resistance to this demon, and I will need to break it up. Ideally, I will separate Telarusi from the rest of the gang, to bring him back to Metrotech. The others will do just fine without him, from what I observed, he has been causing more destruction than saving. He turned to Aperture, with absolute disdain in his expression. What I would give to slit her throat and feed her to my hounds, he thought. Urth would be better without her kind. But, alas, my contract lies with Telarusi. Maybe next time.

Or maybe, I deliberately fail my kidnapping attempt to get this gang to fight me. Then I have all the excuse needed to kill the lot of them. The end result is the same, I get my contract alive. But the world can do without this gang mucking it up. Let some other group take out Scorpionok…

Yautja left the group’s vicinity, and got to work setting his trap for the little mice to follow.

[PunnyShadow]

OOC:REVISIONS IN PROCESS

[Fortuna]

Somewhere over Fortuna, Present Day

Floating over the lush forests of Fortuna, Maia lazily moved back and forth as the she continued her patrol of Fortuna’s skies. Once in awhile she would spot out a target a few kilometers away, whether it would be a tree or a rock, and stopped to take a potshot at it with her sniper rifle. As usual, she was successful at hitting her target with one shot. This time Maia’s eyes locked on to a small leaf floating lightly in the wind just a couple kilometers away in front of her. Bringing the rifle up to her shoulder, Maia took aim at her new target, and after a few silent seconds she pulled the trigger and a small bolt of energy shot out of her rifle. Through her scope, she watched as the leaf immediately disintegrated as the bolt hit with extreme precision. Feeling satisfied with the shot, she put her rifle down and continued her patrol.

As she reached the end of her sector, the communication device in her ear began to ring. Coming to a full stop, Maia slung her rifle over her shoulder and touched the earpiece to answer the call.

“This is Maia to HQ, any issue?” she said out loud in an authoritative voice.

“This is HQ to Maia, your patrol of Sector 14 is over, correct?” a monotone, feminine voice replied.

“Yes, I’m at the border of Sector 15.”

“Good, HQ has new orders for you, soldier,” the voice paused to allow Maia to prepare her self to receive her orders. “We’ve got reports of unauthorized meta action within Sector 18, the number and strength is unknown. We have an elite force making their way to this location, but we need you as reconnaissance to tell us just what we’re dealing with. I’m sending you the coordinates now.” A small hologram on Maia’s wrist popped up showing her a view of Sector 18 with a red dot blinking in the middle, representing where she needed to go.

“Coordinates received,” Maia answered.

“Good. As these metas have no clearance within our homeland, you may shoot to kill. Is this clear?”

“Affirmative.”

“Splendid. You may proceed with the mission. Glory to the High Commander,” the voice proudly said before going quiet.

“Glory to the High Commander,” Maia mumbled as she took a quick glance at the hologram map before heading off.

[King_Rico]

(Hellraisers Post)

Forest Of Fortuna

After resting a nite Aperture figured they could slow down to train with each other, she was rather excited to train Eidolon. She saw something inside her that she never seen in a mortal, she pledge to unlock her full potential. Aperture walked up to Eidolon, “Would you like to train with me?” She says to Eidolon. Meanwhile Telrusi was next to Kai, “So we never got a official spar whatcha say give me your best friendship match” Telarusi says with a big smile before he changed into his other form releasing huge flames and heat. Eidolon looked at Aperture stoically. “Why should I train with you?” she asks balefully. Then realizing that Aperture had saved her life, and been making gestures of friendship, Eidolon decided to train. If she acted well enough, she could manage to get Aperture off her back. Maybe they could even be friends one day, though Eidolon saw no pressing need to do so. Rubbing her head, she slowly got up. “I will train with you, if you want. Just do not expect this to be an everyday thing” she said slowly. Aperture gave a slight grin before throwing her the armor, “Sitoria has made it more fitting for your body size… Shall we begin then” Aperture looked at her as she put the armor on.

“First move on you” Eidolon quickly swung at Aperture, keeping her body fluid and going for a straight punch to the chest. Although she knew it would not be effective in battle, this was training and she did not want to hurt her companion as Eidolon still needed Aperture to lead this adventure. Aperture eyes turned a dark golden color, “Your not fighting for real!” Aperture charged Eidolon hitting her with two sonic punches, “You must push yourself harder! You will never catch my punches moving like a snail”

Eidolon got pissed at Aperture. “Not fighting for real? I will show her fighting for real!” She had only these fighting skills to keep her safe on the streets, and she thought she could disown them? Eidolon began to throw punches left and right, aiming for Aperture’s critical weak points while conserving her strength. She also began to go invisible and visible in flashes so as to confuse Aperture. “Is this what you meant by fighting for real??” she snarled at Aperture as she landed punches. Aperture aloud the hits to hit her body, she grinned as she was impressed as the final punch came she blocked it with her finger, she looked Eidolon in the eyes “Remember this punch for rest of your life for this will unlock your potential” her hand glowed with a gold aura she proceeded to punch Eidolon in the stomach releasing a surge of energy not of the Urth into Eidolon special armor. Aperture thought to herself “It’s working the suit will allow this flow to unlock Eidolon potential she will be the fiercest of Urth assasins” Eidolon felt a strange power flow into her. Not knowing what it was she impulsively fought it, but to no avail. Eidolon slowly was overcome with power until she lost all sense of it. Slowly she got up and looked at Aperture. “What… what was that??” she asked confused. “I’ve manage to unlock your hidden potential, I touched you with ancient knowledge and powers from my home planet Simoria, let’s see if it worked” Aperture threw a series of speed punches at Eidolon.

“Hm Telarusi are you challenging The Merman?” Kai said to Telarusi while looking at him with a smirk. “Ya bring it!” Telrusi says with a smile as he charges towards Kai. “Ha I see” he says as he runs toward him

Telrusi threw a fireball at him “Bring all you got but you have to be able to control it Kai, don’t worry about me I can take a hit” he chuckled as they threw punches at each other.

Eidolon quickly blocked all the punches with only the barest of effort. She quickly grew uncomfortable when she realized that she was doing things that no human could do. Eidolon slowly began to press on to Aperture, trying to stop being punched. “Can we please stop now?” she asked Aperture. Aperture looked at Eidolon, her eyes turned back to its normal state and her wings back white. “Sure, but are you okay ?” Aperture ask. Eidolon dropped her hands by her side. She huffed. “I am ok, I think. These powers are so… weird though. I like new gear but this just seems unnatural.” Aperture slightly chuckles, “I haven’t giving you anything you haven’t already had, basically I unlocked your full potential boosting your abilities. This power your feeling is all you.” Aperture said to Eidolon. Eidolon nodded. “If that is the case, well I kind of like it.” she said, crossing her arms. “I do not want to come off as rude, but can I train by myself to get used to this? I am still not that comfortable with as you say, unlocking my full potential so soon.” Aperture smiled, "Sure! If you need me I’ll be in the woods sparing with my sister.